Also saw a stat somewhere where half of all grillers run out of gas while cooking. To avoid the wrath of my other half, I've taken the advice of others and have invested in a spare Blue Rhino.

SanchoPanza

if you look on an lp tank, it will have a TW stamped into the rim, then a number. the number is the weight of the empty tank. so if you have a bathroom scale, just weight the tank and when it gets close to that number, just fill it up again. for a standard 20# propane cylinder thats usually 18 pounds. The next thing you can do is what someone mentioned earlier, just poor hot water over the side of the tank and a condensation line will form at the level of the liquid propane. for this to work properly though, the tank has to be open and the grill has to be running. Otherwise if you don't want to fiddle with that method, weber grills now come with tank scales on the side which are reasonably accurate.

someonethatsnotyou

sfokevin

Weighing tanks is absolutely the best way to quantify their contents. I hadn't heard of the hot water trick -- sounds pretty neat but I bet it won't work very well on my aluminum CO2 tank that stays in the cold with the beer!

John Laur

(it's not just for transportation, but general safety as well).

Worf

wcasey

MirDreams

Nothing beats never running out of propane and being able to refill at your leisure.

Steve Hollasch

I prefer not unhooking the tank to lift it or weigh it. Work well, but old news.

CEOself

Do know that tanks have a date on them and DO expire (metal fatigue in question...rust...inside). Replacing a tank every 5 years isn't that bad.

Tank weight on scale is more accurate.

Thanks to some idiot(s) and their lawyers, you now have LESS propane in a tank than before. And that auto-tip shutoff is the reason. (you get 3/4 instead of full fill).

Natural Gas is FAR more expensive than Propane...and Propane burns twice as hot (2500BTu versus NG's 1100Btu).

Spare_Change

Always fill your tank at a U-haul or other fill station instead of doing the Blue Rhino trade services. Blue Rhino tends to not fill completely to the top for security and safer transport reasons, and it's always more exspensive. Around here, trade in services run 18-25 dollars depending on where you go, and my last fill at U-haul was 14 and some change.

bigTrue

how about this novel concept, have 2 tanks so when your grill dies you have a back up. Most of us would end up with 2 empty tanks and feeling like an idiot, but still better than spending money on this device.

desimal

Zippy

Monty

For the price of one of these guages you can buy a second tank, and then you always have a spare and don't care if you run out.

Unless you didn't fill the spare...

lschofield

TerryinSt.Paul

Geisrud

TRASHMAN

Thom

Formerly "Full Up Industries"?

strider_mt2k